It’s not often that you see a guy go 1-for-1 with a walk, a hit, a run scored, and a RBI, in the first inning. Then again, it is international superstar and future first-ballot Hall of Famer Shohei Ohtani that we’re talking about here. This is exactly what the 30-year-old Oshu, Japan native did in the […]
(Read More)Strap In and Hang On
Here’s the deal. Between Friday, June 6 and Thursday, June 19, the NL West first-place Los Angeles Dodgers will play 16 games, with a scheduled off day on Thursday, June 12. Of those 16 games, seven will be against the NL West second-place San Diego Padres – the first three at Petco Park June 9-11, […]
What’s Missing?
The Dodgers are tenuously holding on to first place in the National League’s Western Division, they are loaded with talent – four players are legit candidates for the Hall of Fame. But, there are too many games where fans watch uninspired Dodgers baseball. Foolish errors of omission and commission, hitters flailing away at pitches as […]
Muncy Reaches Milestone
Hitting 200 home runs is a highly respected and significant accomplishment over the course of a Major League career, which, of course, means hitting 201 is even better. During Saturday’s 18-2 pounding of the AL East first-place New York Yankees by the NL West first-place Los Angeles Dodgers in front of a Dodger Stadium crowd […]
Hollywood Stuff
It was as if they had read it from a Hollywood script – and it was epic. With one out and on the third pitch that New York Yankees right fielder and future Hall of Famer Aaron Judge saw from struggling Dodgers right-hander Tony Gonsolin (an 89.7-MPH slider right down Broadway, no pun intended), the […]
Dodgers Make Head-Scratching Move
To say that the Dodgers bullpen is a mess would be a gross understatement. As we all painfully witnessed in Wednesday’s ugly loss to the AL Central second-place Cleveland Guardians at Progressive Field, 30-year-old Dodgers left-hander Tanner Scott not only blew the save of what should have been future Hall of Famer Clayton Kershaw‘s first […]
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The New Maytag Man
April 16th, 2025 at 8:00 am 
by Ron Cervenka Those old enough to remember knew him as “The Maytag Man – the Loneliest Man in Town.” His real name was Jesse White and we saw him almost daily/nightly in television commercials from 1967 through 1988 portraying a lonely Maytag repairman who was never called because of the reliability of Maytag’s home appliances. Move over, […]
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Not Getting It Done
April 14th, 2025 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka In the just completed three-game home series against the Chicago Cubs, a series that drew a combined 158,719 fans to Chavez Ravine, the Dodgers went 4-for-14 (.286) with runners in scoring position. Unfortunately, they also stranded 20 runners on base, which is absolutely unacceptable for a team with the highest payroll in Major League Baseball […]
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Dodgers Set Wrong Kind of Records
April 13th, 2025 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka This ESPN post on Twitter (X.com) says everything Dodgers fans need to know about their team’s embarrassing 16-0 shutout loss to the Chicago Cubs in front of a sold out Dodger Stadium crowd of 53,887 on Saturday afternoon: Whereas, the Cubs amassed 21 hits (that’s not a typo) that included four home runs, the Dodgers […]
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Yoshi + Tommy = W
April 12th, 2025 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka It’s almost automatic. When 26-year-old right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto is on the mound for the Dodgers, and when 29-year-old utility infielder/outfielder Tommy Edman is in the Dodgers lineup (which he has been in 14 of the Dodgers 15 games thus far this season), they usually win. It happened again on Friday night in front of a […]
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Just What They / We Needed
April 10th, 2025 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka Following what was arguably the Dodgers single worst game of the 2025 regular season against the Washington Nationals at Nationals Park on Tuesday, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts‘ team pulled off what was arguably their single best game of their 14-game-old 2025 regular season against those same Washington Nationals on Wednesday afternoon – thanks to some […]
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Men of Steel
April 8th, 2025 at 9:00 am by Ron Cervenka Prior to Monday’s ugly 6-4 Dodgers loss to the Washington Nationals at Nationals Park, the team met with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, where the Commander and Chief presented each player and staff member a commemorative Presidential coin. As our Commander and Chief did so, he shook the hand of each Dodger player […]
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Dodgers Place Freeman On 10-Day IL
April 4th, 2025 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka In a move that most Dodgers fans have been expecting, the team announced on Thursday that eight-time All-Star first baseman Freddie Freeman has been placed on the 10-day injured list after injuring his surgically repaired right ankle in a slip in his shower at home on March 31. That’s the bad news. The (sort of) […]
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Just As It Was Meant To Be
April 3rd, 2025 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka It was a storybook ending that we all knew was coming – a bottom-of-the-ninth Shohei Ohtani walk-off home run … on his bobblehead night. Oh, sure, no one can really predict a home run (other than Babe Ruth), but if you haven’t figured it out by now, the 30-year-old Oshu, Japan native is our generation’s Babe Ruth. […]
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Centerfield
April 2nd, 2025 at 8:00 am by Jesse Pearce * * * “Oh, put me in coachI’m ready to play today.Put me in coachI’m ready to play today.Look at me, I can be, centerfield” Centerfield – John Fogerty – 1985 * * * * It may seem odd to consider what tweaking the Dodgers roster may need after winning their first seven […]
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